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THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT Hosea W. Rood ORIGIN OF THE G. A. R. From the third day of February to the fourth of March, 1864, General Sherman led an army of about twenty-five thousand men from Vicksburg eastward across the state of Mississippi, to Meridian and back, for the purpose of destroying Confederate railroads. There was little fighting, not much to do besides tearing up the roads and burning the ties—this work, of course, being done by the men in the ranks. Surgeon Benjamin F. Stephenson and Chaplain William J. Rutledge belonged to the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. They were tent mates and close companions. Since there was not much for them to do on this rather quiet expedition, they rode along side by side and held converse about the close bond of friendship that was becoming more and more manifest among the comrades they had seen so long together. Their regiment had suffered severely in battle, and the survivors were being drawn more and more closely together. They said to one another that this comradeship would not be at all likely to come to an end with the conclusion of the war; that not only would the memory of common hardship and suffering, common dangers, the common loss of "bunkies" in battle, the hospital, or the prison pen, the recollection of jolly good times together in camp and on the march, unite them in the bonds of fraternity, but also the fact that they had fought for a common cause— the saving of our country and its free institutions from disunion. These two comrades were men of vision; they felt that the sentiment of patriotism should be cultivated
Object Description
Title | The Grand Army of the Republic and the Wisconsin department |
Source Title | Hosea Whitford Rood's The Grand Army of the Republic and the Wisconsin department |
Author/Creator | Rood, Hosea Whitford |
Description | The Grand Army of the Republic and the Wisconsin Department, Part 1: Author Hosea Rood enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 16 and served throughout the Civil War. Late he was appointed custodian of the G.A.R. museum at the Capitol, and in this short article reviews the founding, structure, and operation of one of the nation's largest and longest-lived veterans organizations. (15 pages) |
Subcollection | Regimental Histories |
Source | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 6, number 3, March 1923 |
Source Type | regimental history |
Place of Publication | Madison, Wis. |
Source Creation Date | 1922-1923 |
Source Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
Digital Format | XML |
Digital Identifier | vol06no030040 |
Type | Text |
Description
Title | 280 |
Source Title | Hosea Whitford Rood's The Grand Army of the Republic and the Wisconsin department |
Regiment | 14th Illinois Infantry; 12th Infantry |
Event Date | 1864;1866-04-06; 1866-06-07 |
Year | 1864 |
Month | February-March; April; June |
Day | 6;7 |
State | IL; WI |
Place | Decatur; Madison |
People | Stephenson, Bengamin F.; Rutledge, William J; Hosea Rood; Proudfit, James K. (Gen.) |
Topic | Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R); patriotism; veterans; politics |
Author/Creator | Rood, Hosea Whitford |
Source Type | regimental history |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
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Full text | THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT Hosea W. Rood ORIGIN OF THE G. A. R. From the third day of February to the fourth of March, 1864, General Sherman led an army of about twenty-five thousand men from Vicksburg eastward across the state of Mississippi, to Meridian and back, for the purpose of destroying Confederate railroads. There was little fighting, not much to do besides tearing up the roads and burning the ties—this work, of course, being done by the men in the ranks. Surgeon Benjamin F. Stephenson and Chaplain William J. Rutledge belonged to the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. They were tent mates and close companions. Since there was not much for them to do on this rather quiet expedition, they rode along side by side and held converse about the close bond of friendship that was becoming more and more manifest among the comrades they had seen so long together. Their regiment had suffered severely in battle, and the survivors were being drawn more and more closely together. They said to one another that this comradeship would not be at all likely to come to an end with the conclusion of the war; that not only would the memory of common hardship and suffering, common dangers, the common loss of "bunkies" in battle, the hospital, or the prison pen, the recollection of jolly good times together in camp and on the march, unite them in the bonds of fraternity, but also the fact that they had fought for a common cause— the saving of our country and its free institutions from disunion. These two comrades were men of vision; they felt that the sentiment of patriotism should be cultivated |
Digital Identifier | vol06no030040 |
Type | Text |